Star Maps by Constellation

The main purpose of the star maps below is to represent all the lettered and numbered stars (stars with a
Bayer/Lacaille letter or a Flamsteed number). There is one map per constellation in all cases except Serpens, split
into Caput and Cauda as usual, and Hydra and Eridanus for which two maps were required in order to keep the scale
reasonable.

The star set consists of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue
(novae and non-star objects excepted) augmented with the stars present in Flamsteed's star catalog but too faint to appear in the Bright Star Catalogue.
All these stars have an entry in the Henry Draper
Catalogue, which provided the magnitudes for the faint Flamsteed stars. The star positions come from
the Hipparcos Catalogue. They were adjusted for the epoch
J2000.0 according to proper motion and precessed to the J2000.0 equatorial coordinate system.

The Bayer/Lacaille and Flamsteed designations have been updated according to Morton Wagman's
book Lost Stars (McDonald & Woodward
Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2003) in order to get a complete and hopefully accurate set of star letters
and numbers. Due to the long history of these designations and the number of astronomers involved, there are many
uncertain cases. I have erred on the side of caution, following Wagman's detailed explanations and using
the SIMBAD service as a last resort.

Unlike the Bright Star Catalogue and other modern sources, I have retained Latin letters designations, including
Bayer's capital A's. The map for a given constellation shows the Bayer/Lacaille letter, Flamsteed number, and
Argelander's variable star designation, if any, for the stars of that constellation. Sometimes on purpose and
sometimes due to the fuzziness of constellation boundaries before their standardization in 1930, some stars have
designations in more than one constellation. Priority is given to the designations that correspond to the actual
constellation of the star.

The star names conform to the IAU Catalog of Star Names
(version 2018-09-07), except that Proxima Centauri, Ogma, Barnard's Star, and Lich
do not appear on the maps, and the names of the Pleiades and of θ2 Tauri (Chamukuy) have
been omitted because they couldn't possibly fit.

Non-star objects come from the NGC2000 catalog (free to
use for non-commercial purposes) for now (I plan to revisit the choice and representation of non-star objects in more
depth as time permits). Objects of at least 8 arcmin in diameter or brighter than the 8th magnitude are represented.
The dimensions and orientations of galaxies come from
the Catalog of Principal Galaxies.

The maps are drawn in stereographic projection from the point of the celestial sphere antipodal to their center. Also
represented are constellation boundaries, coordinate lines of the J2000.0 equatorial system, ecliptic coordinate lines
and zodiac points, the galactic equator and center, and the corresponding poles.